The Freud files : an inquiry into the history of psychoanalysis

"How did psychoanalysis attain its prominent cultural position? How did it eclipse rival psychologies and psychotherapies, such that it became natural to bracket Freud with Copernicus and Darwin? Why did Freud 'triumph' to such a degree that we hardly remember his rivals? This book re...

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Main Authors: Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel (Author), Shamdasani, Sonu , 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press , c2012
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : the past of an illusion
  • 2. Privatizing science
  • 3. The interprefaction of dreams
  • 4. Case histories
  • 5. Policing the past